Well I’m back again! Nick isn’t able to take on the Assistant Sec job at the moment as he’ll be moving to a different branch of Unite and will have to get re-elected as a delegate to NTUC. Let’s hope that happens soon, as we need his energy and

As you have discovered, we now have an NTUC blog. It won’t be for discussions as we haven’t time to moderate it and there are plenty of other forums for that. But we will try to keep you up to date with events and newsletters.

have divided this newsletter into two blog entries as it will be too long otherwise. I will put all the TUC info on courses, H&S and interesting blogs on a separate page. So please take a look at it as well.

We will also be putting some help pages up. We currently get queries from mainly non-unionised people who want to know what union they should join, how to go about it and also how to deal with problems such as disciplinaries, redundancy, bullying and health and safety. I am currently drafting some pages with links – once they are up you can let me know if I need to alter it or add info. It will be work in progress – I’d like to get at least something up pretty soon.